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Right Where They Have Always Been

Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru #1)

Book / Novel

Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru #1)

by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Format: Paperback, Indonesian
535 page(s)
ISBN/ISBN13: 9799731232/9789799731234
Published Jan 01, 2005 by Lentera Dipantara

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Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.



Recos Shawn Wongosari   in Exploring Indonesian History and Society through Novels: Reads by Indonesian Authors (ISEAS Library, Aug 21, 2023)
Bumi Manusia remains one of the most important read on postcolonialism, and the life during the colonization of ‘Dutch East Indies’.
— Anggita Paramesti   in Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) – Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Personal Blog, Jan 05, 2020)
Screen Mikael Johani   in Everything You Always Wanted to Happen in the Bumi Manusia Film* (*but Were Afraid to Ask) (Jakarta Globe, Aug 09, 2019)
Screen Bambang Muryanto   in ‘Bumi Manusia’ simplified to lure millennial generation (Jakarta Post, May 31, 2018)
Screen  in Iqbaal Ramadhan to star in ‘Bumi Manusia’ film adaptation (Jakarta Post, May 25, 2018)

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